LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Windrush
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 1.20 in the afternoon, on the 21st of October, 1950, the life-boat coxswain reported that a motor launch had hoisted a distress signal, a mile east of the station and about one and a half miles off...
Ward
Margate, Kent.—At 4.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of February, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was showing two red lights about four miles north-north-east of Margate Pier.
At 4.30 he reported that she was...
French Fishing Vessels
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.19 on the evening of the 18th June, 1951, the coxswain reported that a French fish- ing vessel had gone on the Brake Sands. At 5.24 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings. The sea...
Comet
Barmouth, Merionethshire. — At 8.30 on the evening of the 28th of August, 1951, the police reported that the Tonfanau artillery camp had an- nounced a small fishing boat in distress.
There was one man in her,...
Englyn I
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 10.55 on the night of the 8th of September, 1951, the Polruan coastguard reported red flares one and a half miles south of Fowey Harbour, and at 11.15 the life-boat C.D.E.C. was launched. A moderate sea was running with a...
C.E. 44
FISHING BOAT TOWED IN Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 16th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat C.E. 44 was overdue. A later message said that she had last been seen one mile off the Royal...
None
CUT OFF BY THE TIDE Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.25 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, the police reported that two men had been cut off by the rising tide on a rock off the western undercliff. The motor life-boat Prudential...
Sea Breeze
NUMBED WITH COLD Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. — At 4.5 in the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Sea Breeze, of Aber- ayron, was making distress signals about a quarter of a mile...
Fluidity
SICK MAN LANDED Margate, Kent.—At 8.57 on the night of the 6th of January, 1948, the motor life-boat Lord Southborough—Civil Service No. 1, was launched in a strong south-south-west breeze with a rough sea to search for an aeroplane reported...
Peaceful
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—Just before four o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th of March, 1948, the coastguard reported a motor boat that appeared to be in difficulties off Lizard Point, Tresco. The wind was rising. By five...